Investigating the Structure-Property Relationships at Grain Boundaries in MgO Using Bond-Valence Pair Potentials and Multiple Scattering Analysis

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 366-372

  Browning, Nigel D ^a   Buban, James P ^a   Moltaji, Habib O ^a   Duscher, Gerd ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CHEMICAL BONDS; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONOLAYERS;

BOND-VALENCE PAIR POTENTIALS; BORN-MAYER PAIR POTENTIAL; MULTIPLE SCATTERING ANALYSIS;

MAGNESIA;

EID: 0033079327     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.1999.tb20071.x     Document Type: Article

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